Pakistan

Waseem Akhtar has been sworn in as the new mayor of one of Pakistan’s largest cities – Karachi. But he's currently behind bars, charged with arranging medical care for suspected terrorists and stoking riots in the city in 2007.

Pakistan's lawyers boycotted courts and staged protests nationwide on Tuesday. The boycott came after a horrific suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital killed many of their colleagues. Both the Pakistani Taliban and the Islamic State group have claimed responsibility for the attack.

While the CIA took to Twitter to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a man who reportedly played a key role in helping the agency find the al-Qaeda leader was still sitting in a Pakistani prison cell.

The father of the 5-year-old boy who became an internet sensation after being photographed wearing a homemade Lionel Messi soccer shirt, says the family has been forced to leave Afghanistan after repeated threats.

Where in the world do we go today? The answer to today's Geo Quiz is the Karakorum mountain range. Host Marco Werman gets an update on the tragic accident that took the lives of 11 climbers on the range's highest peak -- K-2. We hear from Italian mountain guide Peter Verza who's been in contact with one of climbers who survived the accident.

Today the leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition government announced they want to impeach President Pervez Musharraf, and Anchor Katy Clark speaks with the BBC's Mark Dummett in Islamabad about this latest challenge to Musharraf's rule.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is under increasing pressure to resign after leaders of the ruling coalition said they plan to impeach him. Anchor Marco Werman speaks to the BBC's Mark Dummett, who is in Islamabad.

To cover regional implications on Musharraf's resignation, we hear from Tinku Ray in New Delhi; Stephen Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution speaks to us from Islamabad; humanitarian aid worker Rory Steward offers his thoughts from Kabul; and former Afghani Minister of the Interior Ali Ahmad Jalali joins us from Washington, DC.

Pakistan's ruling coalition has fallen apart, with the leader of one major party pulling out of the government. That increases the uncertainty in Pakistan, a key U-S ally. Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Charles Haviland in Islamabad.

Pakistani authorities reacted with anger after troops reportedly attacked a village close to the Afghan border, just inside Pakistani territory. Pakistan blamed NATO forces, but NATO has denied involvement.

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